Jean Nicholas Marjolin (1780-1850) and his son , (Nicholas) René Marjolin (1812-1895): surgeons and morbid anatomists

Purchased from Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371), March 1928 (acc.67375), October 1928 and April 1929 (acc.63700), July 1929 (acc.57070), April 1931 (acc.64715), January 1932 (acc.64878) and September 1934 (acc. 67126); from Degrange, Paris, October 1928 (acc.56987), February 1929 (acc.56146), 1932 (acc.65658) and 1933 (acc.66034); from an unknown vendor in Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); from Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc. 67540); from Desgranges, Paris, April 1933 (acc.66041); and from James Tait Goodrich, USA, 1993 (acc.349371)

Item descriptions compiled by Ross MacFarlane based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat; collection-level and series-level descriptions prepared by Christopher Hilton, August 2005.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973); Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999); and typescript supplements to those catalogues, produced by Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton.